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New Zealand First is calling on the Government to explain why it allowed vast quantities of cigarettes to be imported and stockpiled at the end of 2012 so they could be re-exported overseas and increased taxes claimed back by the tobacco industry.

New Zealand First says veiled legal threats against the Government’s plans for plain packaging on cigarettes by the tobacco industry is just the tip of a litigious iceberg that US interests will launch under a new trade deal being negotiated.